RESTORATION ECOLOGY, ESRM 473

WINTER 2008

 

 

INSTRUCTOR: KERN EWING, Merrill Hall Room 31, CUH, 543-4426, kern@u.washington.edu

T.A. : Alaine Sommargren, asomm@u.washington.edu

TEXTS: Not required, but good sources:Landscape Restoration Handbook, 2nd. Ed. Harker et. al. / Handbook of Ecological Restoration, Volume 2, Restoration in Practice, Perrow and Davy

 

SYLLABUS

(Note Saturday Field Trips)

 

 

 

Reference

Outline

 

 

 

 

 

Jan 7

 

Introduction: Functional Restoration. Ecosystem Geography

USFS1

USFS2

Outline

Jan 9

 

Functional Restoration (continued)

 

Terrestrial Vegetation

Walter Klimadiagramme

 

Jan 11

 

 

 

Genetics of restoration

UC Davis

Linhart

Lande

Knapp

Lacy

Maser

Reinartz

Sprugel

Outline

Jan 12

Saturday morning field trip to Union Bay Natural Area and parking lot E-5 restoration site

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Group membership will be assigned during second week.

 

 

 Jan 14

 

Invasive Species: Their nature and control in restoration projects

IPM

TNC

Outline

Jan 16

 

Elements of a restoration project.

Stevens

Outline

Jan18

 

Plant selection.

Hartman

USDA

KingCo

WSU

4th Corner

Sound

Nurseries

WNPS Nurseries

Native Nurseries

 

Outline

 

 

 

 

 

Jan 21

 

HOLIDAY

 

 

Jan 23

 

Managing Succession

 

Outline

Jan 25

 

Prairies and Grasslands

 

Outline

Jan 26

 

All day Saturday field trip to the Glacial Heritage prairie restoration site south of Olympia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jan 28

 

 Oak woodland

 

USFS

SilvicsNA

Outline

Jan 30

 

Freshwater wetlands

Stevens1

Stevens2

Cowardin

Outline

Feb 1

 

 Coastal wetlands

Campbell R.

Sweetwater

Outline

 

 

 

 

Feb 4

 

Assessments of previous projects and proposal for what needs to be done to them: due on peer review board on web

 

 

Feb 4

 

Review for first exam

Feb 6

 

 First Examination

Feb 8

Guest lecture

Eelgrass Beds

 

Outline
         

Feb 11

 

Reviews of the proposals of two other groups are due on the peer review board.  

 

 

Feb 11

Kelp

Outline

Feb 13

Arctic systems

 

Outline

Case Histories

Feb 15

 

Alpine / High elevation sites

 

Outline

 

 

 

 

 

Feb 18

 

HOLIDAY

 

 

Feb 20

 

Arid lands

 

Outline

Feb 22

Thornscrub

Ewing and Best, 2004

Sonoran tropical deciduous forest

Sonoran thornscrub

Desert photo gallery

Outline

 

 

 

 

Feb 25

Oak savanna

Outline

Feb 27

 

Riparian restoration

Klamath

Overview

Outline

Feb 29

 

Tropical moist forest

 

Outline

 

 

 

 

 

Mar 3

 

Tropical dry forest

 

Outline

Mar 5

 

Restoring for old growth characteristics

Massachusetts

Ontario

Southeast

Pacific Northwest

Southwest

Outline

Mar 7

 

River restoration

Instream Structures

Outline

 

 

 

 

 

Mar 10

 

Freshwater tidal systems

Outline

Mar 12

Review for second exam

 

 

Mar 14

 Second examination